Chapter 3 Managing Human Population Keywords

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Across
  1. 3. A policy that promotes human reproduction.
  2. 6. To leave one community or area in order to settle in another area.
  3. 9. The number of males and females within different age groups in a given population.
  4. 10. The number of people living in a square kilometre (or other unit of area).
  5. 12. The study of how and why populations change in size and how they can be managed.
  6. 14. The movement of peoples from one place in the world to another.
  7. 17. The number of infant deaths for every 1000 live births, of children under the age of one.
  8. 18. Industry that converts raw materials such as farming or mining products into products for sale. The manufacturing industry.
  9. 19. A policy that discourages human reproduction.
  10. 20. The change in the size of a population due to birth rates, death rates and net migration rates.
  11. 21. To move into an area or region in order to settle down and live.
  12. 23. When water soaks into soils, removing the minerals and nutrients and reducing their ability to support plant life.
  13. 25. the ratio that is a measure of the young dependents (age 0 – 14) in a population, people younger than the age of 15 in relation to the working–age population (15 - 64 years old) as a ratio.
  14. 27. These are factors that are causing people to leave an area. They may include factors such as war, drought, floods or the lack of housing, food, education, jobs or a poor standard of living.
  15. 28. The difference between the number of people entering a country (immigration) and the number of people leaving a country (emigration).
  16. 29. The number of children, per 1000 live births, that die under the age of five in a population in a year.
Down
  1. 1. The ratio where the number of old dependents (age 65+) in a population, people older than 64 in relation to the working-age population (15 - 64 years old) as a ratio. The ratio is expressed as the total number of old dependents per hundred people in the workforce.
  2. 2. The difference between the birth rates and death rates, and the change in numbers due to migration, in a population.
  3. 4. A population with a high percentage of old people (aged 65 years or older).
  4. 5. The number of live births per thousand people in the population, per year. Also known as the crude birth rate as it does not take age or gender into account.
  5. 7. The way in which the population is spread out across a given area.
  6. 8. The change in the size of a population due to birth and death rates.
  7. 11. The ratio is the measure of the dependents (non-working) portion of the population (age groups 0-14 and 65+) compared to the total independent (working) portion of the population ( 15 - 64 years). The ratio is expressed as the number of dependents per hundred people in the workforce.
  8. 13. The ratio is a measure of both the young (age 0 – 14 years) and old dependents (age 65 and older) added together to show their number versus the independent population (15 - 64 year olds). The ratio is expressed as the total number of dependents (young and old) per hundred people in the workforce.
  9. 15. A population with a high percentage of young people (15 years or younger).
  10. 16. The difference between the birth rates and death rates in a population; natural increase differs from overall increase.
  11. 22. industry such as mining, agriculture, fishing or forestry that are harvesting raw materials.
  12. 24. The average age that a new-born child is expected to live to.
  13. 26. The number of deaths per thousand people in the population, per year.